2007-08 Houston Rockets season

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2007-08 Houston Rockets season
Head Coach Rick Adelman
Arena Toyota Center
Results
Record 13-15
Place CON: 10th DIV: 4th
Playoff Finish TBD

The 2007-08 Houston Rockets season will be their 41st season in the National Basketball Association and 37th in Houston.

Key dates prior to the start of the season:

Contents:
Offseason – Draft picks – Roster – Regular season – Playoffs – Game log
Player stats – Awards and records – Transactions – See also – References


[edit] Roster

Houston Rockets roster
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Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. From
PG 12 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Alston, Rafer 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 175 lb (79 kg) Cal State-Fresno
SF 31 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Battier, Shane 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 230 lb (104 kg) Duke
PG 0 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Brooks, Aaron 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 161 lb (73 kg) Oregon
PG 3 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Francis, Steve 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 210 lb (95 kg) Maryland, College Park*
PF 44 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Hayes, Chuck 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 242 lb (110 kg) Kentucky
SG 2 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Head, Luther 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 185 lb (84 kg) Illinois
PG 7 Image:Flag of the United States.svg James, Mike 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 195 lb (88 kg) Duquesne
PF 14 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Landry, Carl 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 248 lb (112 kg) Purdue
SG 1 Image:Flag of the United States.svg McGrady, Tracy (C) 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 223 lb (101 kg) Mt. Zion Christian Academy
C 55 Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Mutombo, Dikembe 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) 260 lb (118 kg) Georgetown
SF 20 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Novak, Steve 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 234 lb (106 kg) Marquette
PF 4 Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Scola, Luis 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 245 lb (111 kg) Argentina
SG 13 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Snyder, Kirk 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 228 lb (103 kg) Nevada
SF 6 Image:Flag of the United States.svg Wells, Bonzi 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 215 lb (98 kg) Ball State
C 11 Image:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yao Ming (C) 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) 310 lb (141 kg) China
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Legend

Roster • Transactions • updated 2007-09-30

[edit] Draft picks

Houston's selections from the 2007 NBA Draft in New York, New York.

Round Pick Player Postition Nationality School/Club Team
1 26 Aaron Brooks Point Guard Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States Oregon
2 54 Brad Newley Shooting Guard Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia Adelaide 36ers (Australia)

[edit] Offseason

[edit] Season standings

Standings for all games through December 25 2007

Southwest Division GP W L PCT Home Road GB
San Antonio Spurs 26 19 7 .731 14–1 5–6 --
Dallas Mavericks 28 19 9 .679 13–2 6–7 1.0
New Orleans Hornets 27 17 10 .630 8–5 9–5 2.5
Houston Rockets 28 13 15 .464 6–5 7–10 7.0
Memphis Grizzlies 27 8 19 .296 5–9 3–10 11.5


[edit] Game log

[edit] October

Record: 1–0 ; Home: 0–0 ; Road: 1–0

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record
1 October 30 2007 Rockets 95–93 Lakers NA Tracy McGrady (30) 18,997 1–0

[edit] November

Record: 8–8; Home: 4–3; Road: 4–5

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record
2 November 1 2007 Rockets 105–96 Jazz NA Tracy McGrady (47) 19,911 2–0
3 November 3 2007 Trailblazers 80–89 Rockets NA Yao Ming (21) 18,232 3–0
4 November 5 2007 Rockets 98–107 Mavericks NA Tracy McGrady (35) 20,389 3–1
5 November 6 2007 Spurs 81–89 Rockets NA Yao Ming (28) 18,280 4–1
6 November 9 2007 Bucks 88–104 Rockets NA Yao Ming (28) 18,244 5–1
7 November 11 2007 Rockets 85–82 Bobcats NA Yao Ming (34) 11,936 6–1
8 November 13 2007 Rockets 99–105 Grizzlies NA Tracy McGrady (41) 12,368 6–2
9 November 14 2007 Lakers 93–90 Rockets NA Yao Ming (26) 18,178 6–3
10 November 16 2007 Rockets 84–90 Spurs NA Luis Scola (20) 18,797 6–4
11 November 17 2007 Suns 115–105 Rockets NA Luis Scola (20) 18,265 6–5
12 November 21 2007 Mavericks 100–94 Rockets NA Yao Ming (30) 18,143 6–6
13 November 23 2007 Rockets 91–98 Heat NA Two-way tie (20) 19,600 6–7
14 November 24 2007 Nuggets 81–108 Rockets NA Tracy McGrady (35) 18,228 7–7
15 November 26 2007 Rockets 88–71 Clippers NA Tracy McGrady (36) 15,452 8–7
16 November 28 2007 Rockets 100–94 Suns NA Yao Ming (31) 18,422 9–7
17 November 29 2007 Rockets 94–113 Warriors NA Mike James (19) 19,596 9–8

[edit] December

Record: 5–6; Home: 2–2; Road: 3–4

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record
18 1 December 2007 Rockets 99–107 Kings NA Tracy McGrady (40) 15,081 9–9
19 5 December 2007 Grizzlies 92–105 Rockets NA Two-way tie (24) 17,723 10–9
20 7 December 2007 Rockets 96–89 Nets NA Yao Ming (25) 15,421 11–9
21 9 December 2007 Rockets 80–93 Raptors NA Tracy McGrady (23) 19,800 11–10
22 10 December 2007 Rockets 88–100 Sixers NA Bonzi Wells (24) 12,551 11–11
23 12 December 2007 Pistons 77–80 Rockets NA Tracy McGrady (29) 17,453 12–11
24 17 December 2007 Mavericks 96–83 Rockets NA Yao Ming (28) 18,307 12–12
25 19 December 2007 Magic 97–92 Rockets NA Yao Ming (19) 18,270 12–13
26 20 December 2007 Rockets 111–112 Nuggets 2 Yao Ming (26) 16,157 12–14
27 22 December 2007 Rockets 116–98 Bulls NA Two-way tie (20) 22,434 13–14
28 23 December 2007 Rockets 82–94 Pistons NA Luis Scola (18) 22,076 13–15
29 28 December 2007 Rockets 103–83 Grizzlies NA Two-way tie (22) 15,660 14–15

[edit] January

Record: ; Home: ; Road:

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record

[edit] February

Record: ; Home: ; Road:

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record

[edit] March

Record: ; Home: ; Road:

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record

[edit] April

Record: ; Home: ; Road:

# Date Visitor Score Home OT Leading scorer Attendance Record
  • Green background indicates win.
  • Red background indicates regulation loss.
  • White background indicates overtime/shootout loss.

[edit] Player stats

Player GP MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG FG% FT%
Rafer Alston 14 29:00 7.4 2.9 4.6 1.1 0.0 .348 .625
Shane Battier 14 35:06 8.8 5.1 1.4 1.0 0.6 .404 .700
Aaron Brooks 1 03:06 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.000 .000
Steve Francis 2 21:30 9.0 2.5 2.5 1.5 0.5 .350 1.000
Chuck Hayes 13 22:30 4.0 6.3 0.8 1.3 0.4 .525 .000
Luther Head 13 13:18 4.2 1.1 1.4 0.4 0.1 .449 .750
Mike James 13 22:41 10.2 2.0 2.1 0.9 0.2 .359 .700
Dikembe Mutombo 7 08:24 0.7 2.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 .200 .600
Tracy McGrady 11 36:30 25.0 5.4 5.6 1.2 0.4 .445 .713
Luis Scola 13 20:18 7.3 4.5 1.1 0.5 0.2 .542 .455
Kirk Snyder 13 10:11 6.5 0.5 1.5 0.0 0.0 .500 .200
Bonzi Wells 13 21:53 7.2 5.6 1.3 0.8 0.6 .327 .636
Yao Ming 13 36:42 22.5 10.0 2.7 0.6 2.3 .510 .851

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[edit] Awards and records

[edit] Records

[edit] Milestones

[edit] Transactions

The Rockets have been involved in the following transactions during the 2007-08 season.

Houston will begin the 2007-08 season with recently hired Rick Adelman as the team's 11th head coach.[1]

Less than a week later, Scola signed with the Rockets.[2] On July 20 guard Steve Francis signed a 2 year deal with the Rockets, after he accepted a buyout of the last two seasons of his contract, worth roughly $30 million from the Portland Trail Blazers . He is expected to compete for a starting job with Mike James and Rafer Alston [3]

[edit] Trades

On June 14, the Rockets traded Juwan Howard to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Mike James and Justin Reed.[4].

On July 12 guard Vassilis Spanoulis was traded to the San Antonio Spurs along with the rights for the 2009 second-round draft pick, for center Jackie Butler and the rights to Luis Scola a 2002 second-round draft pick, yet to play in the NBA. 24 Hours after this deal was made, Scola came to a "Basic Agreement" which could see him playing for the Rockets next season.[5]


[edit] Free Agents

Player Former team
Steve Francis New York Knicks (via Portland)
Player New team
Jackie Butler  ????
Mike Harris  ????
John Lucas III  ????
Justin Reed  ????
Bob Sura  ????

[edit] Court Redesign

On September 7, it was announced that the Rockets will debut a new court design for the 2007-08 season. The court design includes a lighter varnished wood inside the three point area, similar to the Seattle Supersonics, while the rest are dark varnished wood. The color red will remain on the Rockets logo, and the script. This court design is similar to the Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers and New Orleans Hornets, in which most of the hardwood is exposed.[6]


[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-05-21). Adelman reaches deal to coach Rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  2. ^ Damien Pierce (2007-07-17). Scola signed rockets. Rockets Official Website.
  3. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-07-20). Francis returns to Rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  4. ^ Marc Stein (2007-06-14). Rockets, Wolves finalize swap of Howard, James.. ESPN.
  5. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-07-14). Scola to play for rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  6. ^ Damien Pierce (2007-09-07). Home Improvement. Rockets Official Website.
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2007-08 NBA season by team

Atlantic: Boston • New Jersey • New York • Philadelphia • Toronto
Central: Chicago • Cleveland • Detroit • Indiana • Milwaukee
Southeast: Atlanta • Charlotte • Miami • Orlando • Washington

Southwest: Dallas • Houston • Memphis • New Orleans • San Antonio
Northwest: Denver • Minnesota • Portland • Seattle • Utah
Pacific: Golden State • LA Clippers • LA Lakers • Phoenix • Sacramento

See also: 2007 NBA Draft • All-Star Game • Playoffs • Transactions

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-05-21). Adelman reaches deal to coach Rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  2. ^ Damien Pierce (2007-07-17). Scola signed rockets. Rockets Official Website.
  3. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-07-20). Francis returns to Rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  4. ^ Marc Stein (2007-06-14). Rockets, Wolves finalize swap of Howard, James.. ESPN.
  5. ^ Jonathan Feigen (2007-07-14). Scola to play for rockets. Houston Chronicle.
  6. ^ Damien Pierce (2007-09-07). Home Improvement. Rockets Official Website.

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